The website he had been using at the time was static and it was nearly impossible to have it updated in a timely manner. Worst of all the site wasn’t ranked in Google so the amount of people accessing it was extremely limited.

So 3PRIME took the static site and rebuilt it as a Wordpress website and launched it on Friday 1/20/2012. We checked back on it just this morning and found out that the homepage had been spidered in Google along with four other inner pages.

When we searched for the primary term that we built into the revamped homepage even we were surprised by what we saw. You can see from the picture insert how the website shot through the ranking. If you’re interested in results like this then make sure to contact 3PRIME.

Services provided

• Setup new hosting
• Domain management to build on a temporary subdomain
• Setup Wordpress with a simple but powerful theme
• Reorganized existing content, which was plentiful and created new pages
• SEO focused on the page names and URLs, as well as the organization of content
• Took lengthy FAQ page and broke into over 30 individual pages, providing lots of SEO potential
• Incorporated existing images and color scheme, as this was not a redesign project
• Rebuilt appointment form and added contact form
• Provided reformatted website to client for review and received approval from the client to launch the website.

And with that in mind, the staff here at 3PRIME would like to wish everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving Holiday!

First we migrated their website to our Managed Hosting service. We also updated their site to become more flexible and added the company’s latest information. 3PRIME converted static HTML to php pages, utilizing server-side includes to make managing the website more straight forward. And lastly, we added new sections of content about Compass’ capabilities.

“3PRIME stands by every business who selects us to be their website managers. We are always glad to make updates by request, and stand ready to provide marketing support, advanced SEO and our other specialties.”

- Ryan Turner, Co-Owner

The work we’ve done for them has already begun paying dividends. They reported to us that they’ve received calls and inquiries from potential customers that had been brought to them by the website. 3PRIME couldn’t be happier about the initial success of the project and we look forward to working with the Kitchen Design Center in the future.

A screenshot of the mysterious dbboon which has been wreaking havoc on GoDaddy sites. More information to follow once we know more.

I’m actually creating my own website right now (and no, it’s not cosmetics-related) and I seek some advice from you regarding hosting. Just like you, I buy all my domains thru GoDaddy, only so far I never had to worry about hosting and FTP upload. I am reading horror stories online about GoDaddy hosting services and I’m having a hard time evaluating where the truth is… Some love it, some hate it!

Is GoDaddy a decent option for hosting? Or is it for suckers/newbies who don’t know any better?

Regarding hosting, I do recommend GoDaddy, but it may be that I am highly familiar with it, so I am used to ignoring the upsells they send you through when you are setting up services with them. I have had sites run poorly, I have had problems with hacking, but overall, with over 100 sites hosted with them I’d say they are good bet.

For someone better, and at $60 per year paid upfront very comparable in price, we use KnownHost.com. It takes longer to setup, you have to wait for emails and such (24 hours) but the control panel is much more powerful and the service is somewhat more reliable. Main difference, they don’t provide telephone support. So if you you want more personal support, go with godaddy.

But why would Yahoo! just throw away something that they spent good money for, about 3.57 billion dollars in 1999. GeoCities web pages still saw around ten million visitors per month and some may think (as many did) that those kind of numbers were worth having around. At the very least they could have tried to sell the company, basically anything they made would end up being more than what they got by unceremoniously shutting it down.

Of course, they could have been trying to cannibalize GeoCities into their Yahoo! web hosting service. An offer to join the service was included with the announcement that GeoCities was closing to its users. It must have been a bitter pill to swallow: “So, yeah, we’re shutting all of this free stuff down but now you get to pay for web hosting for only 4.99 a month! We know you must be excited.”

And while 4.99 isn’t a lot for web hosting it’s still 4.99 more a month than most GeoCities users were paying. Besides, 4.99 is good for almost two gallons of gas in some places. Maybe.

Yahoo! never found a way to make GeoCities profitable or at least–profitable enough for them. And while I’m not going to say that they ran it into the ground–that’s surely where it is now.

R.I.P.